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Over the weekend, yet another hapless prisoner stuck at Guantanamo Bay for the last six years was determined to have been wrongly detained, this time by a

Politico’s John Bresnahan has a great piece of reporting today about the hypocrisy of Republican leaders calling for the end of earmarks, not to mention the

The indispensable Red County blog digs in on the story with some intel about how, exactly, Erik Brown came to bill the RNC nearly $2,000 for a night at

Late yesterday, the House passed a war-funding bill. But the $80 billion bill actually includes only $37 billion in war funding; the rest is made up of

Studies and Congressional testimony show an immigration system with few rules or supervision.

Today, the Hudson Institute and the Bradley Symposium hosted a number of leading conservative thinkers, who weighed in on the question: Can there be a populist

It’s been a bad 24 hours for the birthers, but that hasn’t slowed down the monster FreeRepublic.com thread on the forged Kenyan birth certificate. Jemian

In more explicit terms than he had previously, President-elect Barack Obama today laid out the philosophy behind his cabinet selections and addressed the

The Minnesota Independent, our sister site, just put up an enlightening series of interviews with conservative Minneapolis residents protesting the Democrats’

As Ali Soufan prepares to testify publicly for the first time about the FBI’s role in the torture policies of the Bush administration, some aspects of his testimony are already clear -- others are less so.

When a conversation between Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle and third-party challenger Scott Ashjian was leaked over the weekend, Angle’s comment

Yesterday, we reported that in response to pressure from the National Rifle Association and other groups, House Democrats decided to exempt the NRA and some

Kate Phillips has all you need to know about yesterday’s hearing on the constitutionality of czars, called by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) and taking the form

In a new study, the Center for Responsible Lending analyzes the demographics of the foreclosure crisis, and finds that foreclosure has disproportionately

Eli Lake at The Washington Times builds on yesterday’s comments from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that U.S. troops might be welcome in some form in Iraq

Am I crazy or is White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs daring former Vice President Dick Cheney to keep denouncing the Obama administration? Clip after the

Following up on my piece today on the increasing odds of a utilities-only carbon cap -- particularly given a supportive statement from swing Sen. Olympia Snowe

Yet another letter to Congress opposing the Waxman-Markey climate bill has been revealed to be a fake. The letter, the 14th confirmed forgery, claims to be from

University of Chicago economist and New York Times Economix contributor Casey Mulligan does not really believe there was a housing bubble. He has written a

In my piece yesterday I mention several big-ticket defense platforms beloved by the military services that have featured chronic cost-overruns. One of them is a

The senior senator from Arizona ends weeks of speculation about his Supreme Court vote with a lengthy floor statement explaining that he’ll vote no. Sniping